President Smith will be finishing his time as mission president and will be released in early July, so we only have a couple more zone conferences with him. Man, I am going to miss him. He truly is such an inspired man.
The highlight of this zone conference was Role Plays. To any of you who have served a mission, you know how awkward role plays can be. You either love them or you hate them. I am one who loves role plays and see the great value in them. My companion hates roleplays and doesn't like to do them hahaha. A good chunk of zone conference was devoted to how to have a successful roleplay. Elder Wood and I are excited to try and implement this into our teaching.
I do have a cool story about role plays that actually happened in my last area Richfield. We were talking to this active member family who had a next door neighbor who had an unbaptized 9 year old in the home. The member was telling us how she was nervous to talk to her neighbor because she didn't know what to say or how the conversation would go. A thought then popped into my head that we should tell her about role plays. We did and she and her husband practiced a few times before she went over. The unbaptized 9 yr old got baptized last week due to, in part, role plays.
A role play is where you act as someone, a non-member or someone else, and then your companion acts as a missionary and you practice a conversation. It does feel kind of awkward at times, but I have a great love for role plays and I know that they prepare us to feel the spirit. I can't count how many times we have done a role play in preparation for a lesson and had the lesson go exactly like the role play.
Anyway, that's all for this week! Keep on keeping on! Have a great week!
Elder Francis
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